luminescence

English

Etymology

From Latin lumen +‎ -escence

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːmɪˈnɛs(ə)ns/

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• Hyphenation: lu‧min‧es‧cence
• Rhymes: -ɛsəns

Noun

luminescence (countable and uncountable, plural luminescences)

1. (physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

Derived terms

• adsorboluminescence
• autoluminescence
• bioluminescence
• cathodoluminescence
• chemiluminescence
• chemoluminescence
• crystalloluminescence
• electroluminescence
• immunoluminescence
• magnetoluminescence
• mechanoluminescence
• photoluminescence
• piezoluminescence
• radioluminescence
• radiophotoluminescence
• radiothermoluminescence
• roentgenoluminescence
• sonoluminescence
• superluminescence
• thermoluminescence

 

Related terms

• fluorescence
• luminesce
• luminescent
• phosphorescence

 

Translations

emission

• Basque: lumineszentzia (eu)
• Catalan: luminescència f
• Czech: luminiscence (cs) f
• Finnish: luminesenssi
• French: luminescence (fr) f
• Galician: luminiscencia (gl)
• German: Lumineszenz (de) f
• Irish: lonracht f
• Italian: luminescenza (it) f
• Lithuanian: švietà f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luminescens m

  Nynorsk: luminescens m

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• Persian: تابناکی (fa) (tābnākī)
• Polish: luminescencja f
• Portuguese: luminescência (pt) f
• Romanian: luminiscență f
• Russian: свече́ние (ru) n (svečénije), люминесце́нция (ru) f (ljuminescéncija)
• Spanish: luminiscencia f
• Tagalog: sanag, kasanagan
• Tamil: ஒளிப்பாயம் (oḷippāyam)
• Turkish: ışıldama (tr)

Further reading

• luminescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

luminescence f (plural luminescences)

1. luminescence

Related terms

• luminescent

Further reading

• “luminescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.